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This little place is where I keep all content produced around software development and cloud architecture. My name is Julien Bras, a frenchy 🐸 located in 🇨🇦. The main goal of this space is to share knowledge and keep producing content!

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📰Blog Posts

The Twitter Bot That Help You With French Consulate Appointment!

The Twitter Bot That Help You With French Consulate Appointment!

How I have built a Twitter bot with Serverless Stack framework

Why and How Migrate From Firebase to Serverless Stack?

Why and How Migrate From Firebase to Serverless Stack?

This article will guide you in the process of moving for a Firebase stack to a Serverless Stack (SST) stack easily.

SST: The Most Underrated Serverless Framework You Need to Discover (part 2)

SST: The Most Underrated Serverless Framework You Need to Discover (part 2)

SST: The Most Underrated Serverless Framework You Need to Discover

SST: The Most Underrated Serverless Framework You Need to Discover

A first episode on a serie about Serverless Stack (SST)

How to Run a Minecraft Server on AWS For Less Than 3 USD a Month

How to Run a Minecraft Server on AWS For Less Than 3 USD a Month

Operate a Minecraft serverbut run it only when needed

How to use React inside a Wordpress application ?

How to use React inside a Wordpress application ?

Yes it’s possible to build React components inside Wordpress 😅

Jira: one easy solution to generate custom reporting

Jira: one easy solution to generate custom reporting

Analytics on Jira!

Beginner guide to Maven Central publishing

Beginner guide to Maven Central publishing

What is Maven Central? How to publish?

Moving from Eclipse to VSCode by a Java Developer

Moving from Eclipse to VSCode by a Java Developer

How to move from Eclipse to VSCode?

Add an Admin Panel to an existing Express API / React frontend

Add an Admin Panel to an existing Express API / React frontend

Comparison of AdminBro vs Strapi vs Feathersjs vs Back4app vs React-admin

Comparing API Platform and Symfony Encore with ReactJS

Comparing API Platform and Symfony Encore with ReactJS

This article have been written in Oct 2019 and the goal is to compare at this date the main differences between the 2 projects. No proper comparison have be found yet by myself, so I am writing one !

The web is an API (scrap it !)

The web is an API (scrap it !)

How I have used the Python API BeautifulSoup to enhance a website.

Writing for other companies:

Building a nivo Dashboard with Cube - Cube Blog

I've worked for many years as a business intelligence (BI) consultant, building dashboards and reports for big companies. It's not easy to build a dashboard with classic BI tools, and it's even trickier if you want to embed elements in a classic React web app.

https://cube.dev/blog/building-a-nivo-dashboard-with-cube

Building a nivo Dashboard with Cube - Cube Blog

EBS Pricing and Cost Optimization Guide

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) isn't a fancy service. It's simply a tool that provides disk storage for all your Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. A few months ago, an organization was testing a new system for a company (an SAP HANA database), and a new Amazon EC2 instance was automatically created from a template with associated EBS disks.

https://www.cloudforecast.io/blog/ebs-pricing/

EBS Pricing and Cost Optimization Guide

Building a Recharts Dashboard with Cube - Cube Blog

This tutorial will show you how to build a dashboard using Recharts, a React library that offers you a set of chart components to speed up the creation of a dashboard, and Cube, a Headless BI tool.

https://cube.dev/blog/building-a-recharts-dashboard-with-cube/

Building a Recharts Dashboard with Cube - Cube Blog

Getting Started with Contract-Based Testing - Codecov

Testing is a fundamental aspect of software development. It helps to enhance the quality of the product by confirming the software works and catching any potential bugs before the product is released to customers. Contract-based testing, in particular, can help you speed up your tests on a microservice-oriented architecture without giving you too many headaches.

https://about.codecov.io/blog/getting-started-with-contract-based-testing/

Getting Started with Contract-Based Testing - Codecov

For my company, Wiiisdom on Medium:

Build and Deploy a Symfony Application on AWS using CDK, ECS and RDS

Why invest in AWS CDK today? Using a simple example with a basic web application built with the Symfony framework, this article will show you how to industrialize any application with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodology on AWS.

https://medium.com/wiiisdom-labs/build-and-deploy-a-symfony-application-on-aws-using-cdk-ecs-and-rds-ec8c85465af6

Build and Deploy a Symfony Application on AWS using CDK, ECS and RDS

How Do We Deploy Temporary Acceptance Systems on AWS ?

We want to deliver our products as temporary acceptance systems to be tested by our developers, testers, and pre-sales engineers internally before their release. How do we have setup such system using CodeBuild, CloudFormation and ECS ? Our company, Wiiisdom edits multiple software solutions (the 360Suite portfolio) to help our customers use efficiently SAP BusinessObjects (BOBJ in this article).

How Do We Deploy Temporary Acceptance Systems on AWS ?

https://medium.com/wiiisdom-labs/how-do-we-deploy-temporary-acceptance-systems-on-aws-83103e06cfd1?source=collection_home---------1-------------------------------

How Do We Deploy Temporary Acceptance Systems on AWS ?

Why we need a BitBucket bot and how we have made it

BitBucket is a web-based version control repository hosting service for source code and development projects. Bitbucket is more than just Git code management. Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test, and deploy.

https://medium.com/wiiisdom-labs/why-we-need-a-bitbucket-bot-and-how-we-have-made-it-f90a6da9dbcb?source=collection_home---------5-------------------------------

Why we need a BitBucket bot and how we have made it

Cost-Efficient Integration Testing on vendor appliances running on EC2

We are building applications that are relying on monolithic commercial applications like SAP Business Objects or Tableau Software. Following our quality standard, we want to run reliable, efficient and cost-effective tests to validate our work. Here is how we are doing that using AWS EC2 instances.

Cost-Efficient Integration Testing on vendor appliances running on EC2

https://medium.com/wiiisdom-labs/cost-efficient-integration-testing-on-vendor-appliances-running-on-ec2-7101cf1ba895

Cost-Efficient Integration Testing on vendor appliances running on EC2

Writing on SAP blogs:

How to deal with AWS Image and SAP Business Objects

Hello, my name is Julien Bras, I am a product manager for the company GB&Smith, SAP partner that deliver software around SAP BusinessObjects solutions. I want to share some of our experience about working with SAP BusinessObjects platform on cloud systems like Amazon Web Services.

https://blogs.sap.com/2020/08/26/how-to-deal-with-aws-image-and-sap-business-objects/

How to deal with AWS Image and SAP Business Objects

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